{"id":73260,"date":"2025-08-15T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73260"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:50:11","slug":"abuja-female-journalists-demand-action-on-safety-amid-rising-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/15\/abuja-female-journalists-demand-action-on-safety-amid-rising-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Female Journalists Demand Action on Safety Amid Rising Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Female journalists in Nigeria are calling on media owners and managers to urgently prioritize their safety as threats against women in the profession escalate.<\/p>\n<p>At a two-day workshop in Abuja organized by Media Rights Agenda (MRA), participants outlined the unique risks women in media face, from online harassment and sexist attacks to physical violence.<\/p>\n<p>In a communiqu\u00e9, they urged media organizations to take primary responsibility for staff protection, including providing safe transportation, secure lodging, and financial support for late-night or high-risk assignments.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists also proposed establishing a national protective network, potentially under the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), to foster peer support, share safety strategies, and coordinate emergency responses.<\/p>\n<p>They stressed that safeguarding female journalists is not just a personal concern but a matter of press freedom, democratic strength, and national development.<\/p>\n<p>The communiqu\u00e9 called on government agencies, civil society, and all stakeholders to take active roles in ensuring those who report the news can do so without fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; Female journalists in Nigeria are calling on media owners and managers to urgently prioritize their safety as threats against women in the profession escalate. At a two-day workshop in Abuja organized by Media Rights Agenda (MRA), participants outlined the unique risks women in media face, from online harassment and sexist attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73262,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73260\/revisions\/73262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}